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Monday, Oct. 20, 2008
Saving the Working Class with Green-Collar Jobs
By Bryan Walsh
Van Jones does not look like your typical environmentalist. He doesn't wear Birkenstocks. He's African-American
in a movement that tends to be overwhelmingly white. His background is in civil-rights activism — speci?cally
prison reform — a cause he champions in Oakland, Calif. But Jones, the head of the non-pro?t Green For All
and the author of the new book The Green-Collar Economy, could represent the future of environmentalism in
America and a way for the movement to survive and even thrive through the coming recession. "The solution for
the environment and the economy will be the same thing," says Jones. (Listen to Jones talk about the green collar
economy on this week's Greencast.)
Jones, a charismatic 40-year-old Yale Law School grad who has emerged as a
major green star over the past year, argues that environmentalism won't just be
about the environment anymore. Instead, it will drive fundamental changes in
the way we do business and the jobs we create — that's what he means by a
green-collar economy. Over the years, manufacturing and other blue-collar jobs
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